Nothing will come of this. The airlines and airports have become a post apocalyptic nightmare after 911. Civility, common sense and rational behavior is gone and all that is left is thug govt' tactics like this.
You have a better shot at getting somewhere more comfortably and on time taking a Greyhound bus than taking a flight anymore.
I've flown Allegiant three times on business since last July. They're no frills, but I had no complaints. They handled
my bags properly, they were the essence of courtesy, and if they had a problem---which they did on my second
trip, they had to switch aircraft when the originally assigned MD-80 came up with cabin air issues---they came
right out and said what the problem was and how soon before a relief plane would come to the gate. (Which
proved about ten minutes max.)
I've flown quite often in my life, starting with a trip from New York to Virginia with my father when I was nine.
And I can't remember any flight I took in which the airline found itself overbooked. Maybe I was fortunate,
but perhaps the not-so-friendly-skies at United had someone asleep at the proverbial switch when the flight
in question was "overbooked" . . .
